A diverse group of erudite and readable artistic forays: Gayford’s account of sitting for Lucian Freud; William Boyd’s unexpected and glorious short biography of an invented artist – one of the great literary hoaxes that put the New York glitterati into a brief spin when it was first published (on April Fool’s Day, 1988); an anthology of artists’ manifestos from around the world; a new edition of Neve’s sensitive and evocative account of  British landscape painting in the C20th, based on many conversations with Ben Nicholson and others; medieval Sienese painting filtered through the intelligence and subtle eye of Hisham Matar, a novelist and writer who is not an ‘art’ writer per se, but for whom art is a touchstone to our shared humanity. Subtitled ‘Adventures in the Art of Being Alone’, Laing’s third book is an elegant and deeply informed mix of memoir and cultural criticism, looking at Warhol, Hopper and others as exemplars of both solitude and the art that was created in and out of that isolation.

This bundle includes:

Why Are We ‘Artists’? 100 World Art Manifestos, selected by Jessica Lock
Unquiet Landscape, Christopher Neve
Nat Tate, William Boyd
Man with a Blue Scarf, Martin Gayford
The Lonely City, Olivia Laing
A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar

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